Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Sadistic Show: ABC's That's Incredible, which, in the search for thrills and ratings, has caused one man nearly to lose a foot, another to burn his fingers to stumps, and a third to suffer several fractures and a ruptured aorta...
...stunt's sponsor, ABC's thrill-pandering series That's Incredible! While gawkers gawked and cameras whirred, Wells, a professional stunt man, gunned a motorcycle up a ramp, sailed over the water fountains outside the showplace, but crashed on his descent. Result: a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower...
DIED. Walter Kaufmann, 59, German-born professor of philosophy at Princeton, whose biographical and interpretive studies of 19th century German thinkers (Hegel, Nietzsche) and literary and philosophical anthologies (Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre) have been handbooks for both undergraduates and scholars; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton...
During the first five years of research, the center introduced several innovations to aid cardiac patients, including blood clot-dissolving enzymes, the insertion of a balloon into the aorta to help pump blood, and the use of radioactive thalium 20 to differentiate healthy heart cells from irreversibly damaged ones...
...photograph above, Dr. Crosthwait makes an incision to expose the coronary artery while Dr. Angel aids with forceps. They will then stitch one end of a vein which they have removed from the patient's leg to the coronary and the other end of this vein to the aorta in order to "bypass" an area of bad circulation...